According to Nielsen, Saturday night’s fight on HBO featuring Sergey Kovalev and Bernard Hopkins drew an average of 1.328 million of the network’s subscribers. The rating makes it the second-highest rated boxing event this year next to Chavez-Vera II. A couple weeks ago, ESPN’s Dan Rafael compiled the highest-rated fights of 2014. Rafael reports that […]
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UFC TV deal in works for Australia and New Zealand
Bellator announces UK TV deal for Bellator 131
Bellator announced on Thursday that it has landed a television deal with U.K. broadcast network, Viacom-owned 5*. It will air next week’s card, Bellator 131, which will feature Tito Ortiz facing Stephan Bonnar. Via Bellator press release: The highly-anticipated “Bellator 131: Tito vs. Bonnar” fight card will air in the U.K. on Sunday, November 16 at 9pm on […]
TUF 20 Episode 7: 494,000
MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that the seventh episode of TUF 20 scored an average viewership of 494,000. It was the second lowest of this season and the fourth straight week with a decline in viewership. In the episode’s fight of the night, Rose Namajunas defeated Alex Chambers via RNC in round […]
TUF 20 Episode 6 Live + 3 gains 225K viewers
MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that the Live +3 rating for last week’s TUF 20 Episode 6 drew an additional 225,000 viewers which drew the average viewership up to 725,000 viewers from the initial 500,000 average. As previously pointed out, last week’s episode went up against Game 7 of the World Series […]